Mark J. Gasiorowski

Mark J. Gasiorowski (born October 9, 1954)[1] is a political scientist at Tulane University in New Orleans in the field of Middle East politics, Third World politics, and U.S. foreign policy.

He has served frequently as a consultant to the United States Department of State. In 2003, following the September 11 attacks, he testified before the 9/11 Commission.[2][3] Journalist and academic Stephen Kinzer has called him "the most persistent" of "a small but dedicated group of scholars [who] have devoted considerable effort to uncovering the truth about events surrounding the 1953 coup" in Iran,[4] an event so important (Kinzer believes) it "defined all of subsequent Iranian history and reshaped the world in ways that only now becoming clear."[5]

  1. ^ Mark J. Gasiorowski[permanent dead link‍]
  2. ^ Statement of Mark Gasiorowski to the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. globalsecurity.org, July 9, 2003
  3. ^ "Political Science". Archived from the original on 2010-01-26. Retrieved 2009-10-01.
  4. ^ Kinzer, Stephen All the Shah's Men : An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror, Stephen Kinzer, (John Wiley and Sons, 2003), Page xxvii
  5. ^ Kinzer, All the Shah's Men, 2003, p.212